FIGHTING SERVICES
SUCCESS OF WELFARE APPEAL. NET SUM OF £lOl,OOO RAISED.. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Joint Committee of the Y.M.C.A. and the Salvation Army set up to carry out the Fighting Services Welfare Fund appeal met yesterday, when the chairman, Sir James Grose, reported that the receipts had amounted to £101.916 Us 2d. There was in addition a sum of £3OOO yet to come in. The expenses had amounted to only £3763 15s Bd, or 3.5 per cent of the receipts which will leave a net balance in the fund of probably £lOl,OOO. Sir James Grose, in expressing his deep satisfaction at the splendid result accruing from the effort, referred to the fine spirit of co-operation which had existed throughout. Colonel Burton. in the absence of the Commissioner of the Salvation Army, heartily supported this statement. It was finally resolved: “That as the business for which the committee had been set up, had been brought to a conclusion, it was decided to disband and advise the National Patriotic Fund Board, that tne committee would again be pleased to act should the necessity arise.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 July 1940, Page 4
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